Is keeping healthy a verb or a noun? It originally refers to a medical activity to maintain life, enhance physical fitness and prevent diseases through various methods, thus prolonging life. Raise, that is, the meaning of nursed back to health, maintenance and tonic; Life means living, surviving and growing. In the modern sense, "health preservation" refers to the active physical and mental maintenance activities for material and spirit according to the laws of human life process.
Maintenance refers to following the law of life, through moderate exercise, plus external care and other means, so that the body function and external skin can be conditioned, restore its due function, which is the first level of health care; Nourishing refers to nourishing and conditioning the whole body according to the laws of the four seasons of heaven and earth, so as to achieve the purpose of preventing diseases and prolonging life.
Self-cultivation refers to broadening one's horizons, understanding one's mind and broadening one's knowledge. Through the cultivation and promotion of one's own moral quality, one can get a kind of physical and mental rest and accomplishment, so as to achieve the purpose of self-cultivation. Health preservation is a comprehensive science, involving many disciplines, including Chinese medicine, physics, chemistry, art, cooking, kinematics, Taoism and so on.
The essence of health preservation is to maintain the five internal organs and prolong life. Han Xun said, "Shen Jian regime": "Therefore, those above it should first enrich the wealth of the people to determine their aspirations, then cultivate their homeland, and then silkworm palace. The country has no vagrants, no wild industry, useless wealth and no increase in strength. Called health. " "Servant home poor, and attack. No income to buy clothes, no income to buy health. "
The significance of modern health preservation
Under the guidance of Chinese and western medical theories, scientific pictures and texts, music, behavior, activities, medical equipment, diet and so on are used. And by adjusting one's living habits, living environment and psychological state, one can adjust one's body and mind, so as to achieve the health care purpose of preventing before illness, eliminating discomfort, promoting recovery from illness and recovering after illness.
Health preservation also refers to the cultivation of "qi of life". Huangdi Neijing mentioned that in the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, Yang in nature has the characteristics of "being born, growing, harvesting and hiding" respectively, so it is necessary to know how to raise "life" in spring, "growing" in summer, "harvesting" in autumn and "hiding" in winter.